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TomRis

Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Sentence processing and comprehension by child heritage bilinguals

Grant period	2023-09-01 - 2025-08-31
Funding body	European Union
Call number	HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
Grant number	101107162
Identifier	G:(EU-Grant)101107162

Note: The project TomRis (Cross-linguistic influence in Third language acquisitiOn: Sentence processing and coMprehension by child heRItage bilingualS) advances our knowledge about the functioning of a child's multilingual brain and uncovers how a multilingual heritage speaker processes and comprehends a third language in real-time. TomRis is the first study to investigate how typological primacy and structural proximity between the involved languages affect cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in the processing and comprehension of a third language during reading sentences. The question is whether the (mis)matched properties in morpho-syntactic structures in the prior languages, which are typologically close (Norwegian/ Dutch) to or distant (Turkish) from English, facilitate the processing of L3 English sentences or not. TomRis offers a groundbreaking approach to capturing the traces of L1 and L2 in processing L3 English by focusing on the same heritage language (Turkish) in two different linguistic contexts (Norway/ the Netherlands). Also, it keeps the task constant in obtaining offline (grammaticality judgement) and online (eye-tracking) processing data during reading. A further novelty in TomRis is the focus on two distinct development stages of language learning to compare the degree and source of CLI in L3 English processing and comprehension at different stages of acquisition. Also, I will match the participants not only based on their proficiency in the L3 (thus isolating potential effects of CLI from previously acquired languages) but also based on their language proficiency in the background languages. Gaining a deep understanding of the factors that facilitate or interfere with CLI in multilingual children is a good investment for the further development of the field. The results will be crucial for all who have to deal with the challenges of multilingual children's language learning such as language educators, policymakers, language therapists, and parents.

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